EGAVE

effendi

About 0.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An educated or well-respected man in an eastern Mediterranean or Arab country; often used as a title of respect or courtesy in Turkey or a former Ottoman territory.
  2. noun The highest military rank attainable by African soldiers in several British and Imperial German colonial forces.

Similar words

reis efendee afandi effendiyah agha derebey emir mirza sayyid great turk

Often followed by

and was to had in is has as class

Word family

effendis

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